If someone is going to make the C's better at MLE or below we'll sign him. If not be happy you have a team that if healthy will represent the Eastern Conference in the finals.
Where does Danny say to expect us to use the full MLE if it will make the team better? In fact, Danny seems to be dampening expectations by saying that those MLE players might not be a good fit for us.
Assuming that Cs are financially constrained and will not add via MLE, it means trades and vet mins are how the team will add depth. One would think the expiring contracts of TA+Scal could bring back some depth, but then the rest of the depth will be through vet min contracts. Alternately, trading Ray for a serviceable - albeit not great - starting SG along with bench depth might be another strategy.
Before we start assuming financial constraints, let's recall that Grousbeck has said publicly the money was there to resign Posey last summer. The decision not to was made by the "basketball people."
the biggest financial constraint on this team is not making it past the second round of the playoffs.
certainly the owners saw all that lost revenue this past season.
they should look in the mirror with regards to that loss of revenue, and open thier check books this year.
Hope they enjoyed saving the money on posey vs. the loss of revenue when we had to rely to much on the starters and wore them out before the playoffs.
(and yes, i've heard the wyc washing his hands of any personal involvement on posey and putting the non-signing on "the basketball people" but i don't buy it.)
agree 100%.
Don't know that any of us know the truth. But Ainge has been known to make some pretty egregious miscalculations.
Either way is extremely believable.
And as for the Garnett injury, it certainly hurt. But we weren't going anywhere with Pierce on fumes and Allen worn down. Giddens washed out last year, and Walker's an immature kid. I'll be surprised if he helps at all before the Big Three window closes.
No bench, no title. Said it last summer. And I'll be saying it this summer if Ainge spends another year diving into the league's dumpsters.
Perhaps we should begin expecting the annual "Tony Allen will develop into our stopper" line from Danny ...
And I disagreed with you last summer as well.
and based on the lakers championship and our exit due to little to no depth with KG down, which lead to ray and paul playing extended minutes before the playoffs even started, I'd say the "we don't need a good bench, we can save some cash here" angle by management proved less than serviceable.
We probably were not going to take it without KG anyway, but once he went down, paul and ray had to play extended minutes, and they were gassed by the playoffs.
I'd prefer that not happen again, and that we spend the MLE and LLE to get soem depth.
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